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by quiesce 12y ago
During the Tokugawa era, scholars of kokugaku, or "country learning," endeavored to revive nativist traditions and loosen the hold of Chinese influence. Helping these ideas take hold was the Opium War of 1839-1842, where a mere ha
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by quiesce 12y ago
Foreign Policy FEATURE Why Is Japan So … Different? A brief history of leaving China, becoming the other, and turning Japanese. BY DAVID PILLING MARCH 17, 2014 On March 16, 1885, an editorial entitled "Leaving Asia" was published
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by quiesce 12y ago
Alternatively: Git/version control explained in terms of time travel.
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by quiesce 12y ago
Quite a few gay-identifying men go out of their way to make sure you know how disgusting female genitalia are to them.
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by quiesce 13y ago
Command-W
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by quiesce 13y ago
> Apple took FreeBSD and makes it into OSX. No, they took NeXTSTEP and made it into OS X. However much they may now have in common, the history of the codebase goes back years prior to the existence of FreeBSD.
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by quiesce 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5842822
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by quiesce 13y ago
I had a similar issue until getting a HHKB[1] some years ago. The extremely compact design with full-sized keys made it much easier to coax my hands into dancing through emacs' chords. As "buy an expensive keyboard to possibly make learning
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by quiesce 13y ago
While the OS-specific keys are sometimes called super, they are not "super" in emacs terminology. Also, if you skim M-x describe-bindings you will find quite a few bindings beginning with s- . EDIT: If you really want access to a less cr
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by quiesce 13y ago
But of course: http://rudel.sourceforge.net/
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by quiesce 13y ago
1) The Wachowski's what? 2) Andrew "Andy" Wachowski has three sisters, so I don't know who these "brothers" repeatedly referenced are. 3) The hell is a "science sci-fi movie"?
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by quiesce 13y ago
It wasn't a big deal when Portal was added to OS X Steam years after the Windows release, it was a big deal when Portal 2 was available on day one.
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by quiesce 13y ago
The quite stable nightly builds of Aquamacs 3 are based upon emacs 24 and available here: http://aquamacs.org/nightlies.shtml
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by quiesce 13y ago
People agreed re the minimap: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap
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by quiesce 14y ago
Until then, we have http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
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by quiesce 14y ago
He may be a tad young for the stuff after 2000 (i.e., the part more interesting and familiar to most potential viewers) but I have a feeling that this Noah Wyle kid could make a decent show of portraying Steve Jobs.
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by quiesce 15y ago
http://hackemist.com/SafariOmnibar/
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by quiesce 15y ago
http://db.tt/ZgOyv5c
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by quiesce 15y ago
“iTunes Match stores your complete music library in iCloud, allowing you to enjoy your collection anywhere, anytime, on any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or computer. iTunes Match beta is currently available to developers in the United States.
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by quiesce 15y ago
https://github.com/rs/SafariOmnibar
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by quiesce 16y ago
Only the Oxford English Dictionary app comes to mind, terrible (content aside, hence managing to retain “killer” status) and ugly as it is. However, it in no way stands as example of either good design or the strengths of Flash.
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by quiesce 16y ago
It works fine for me in 10.6.4
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by quiesce 16y ago
I have and like “Mac OS X for Unix Geeks” 4th/Leopard ed. and “Writing GNU Emacs Extensions”.
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by quiesce 16y ago
Aye, so does the iPhone version of Monkey Island 2. The original, however, offers only the 'drag to move cursor' model.